大象传媒

Hi I'm the son in law of Rex Houghton whose war time story I have written up. I have always been interested in military history. I suppose because I come from the post war baby boom and my father, my uncles and every adult you met had a wartime story. It has always impressed and fascinated me that ordinary people could do such extraordinary things and then return to civilian life with no counselling or support.
I have known some people who experienced extreme events and recounted them so calmly.
My uncle Jack who was at every defeat of the British Army in Europe! Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, and North Africa. My dad at Pegasus bridge. A friends father had exhumed bodies at Katyn and a lady who ran a nearby playgroup had escaped from a Stalinist Gulag in Siberia and walked to Iran. A bus driver who was amongst the first to board the Alkmark and an electrician who made the first allied wartime paratroop drop in Italy.
All of the above took their stories to the grave and we are the poorer for it. I hope Rexs' account go some small way to redress the balance.